Month: December 2025

This week again during Advent we continue to hear about John’s ministry, but you have probably noticed that the setting is not quite the same. Our lectionary takes us from the sunny banks of the Jordan where the crowd gathered to hear John’s powerful predication and receive their baptism (Advent 2 – Matthew 3:1-12) to…

I found it amusing, and then a little sad, when I heard once a priest say that: Among all the saints, John the Baptist is not one to be imitated. Well, indeed, I am not sure about wearing camel’s hair and eating locusts, but I don’t think it was about that. I think what that…